Chapter 2

With a heavy pounding feeling in my head and very loud blaring of alarms and Niner blaring at me, I woke up to confusion and an uncertain feeling about what was going on.

"Niner...nine" I tried to stammer out... Damn it was difficult to talk.

"What's our status?... Any damage?" I had to force myself to say as I tried to keep myself erect in my seat... thank the force my shoulder harness kept me up.

Niner started talking away at me in his various droid speak noises and my eyes started to clear up from blacking out and I started to comprehend the system displays in front of me.

Not good... from what Niner was reporting and what the displays showed... I was in a tricky situation... The ships systems were an array of yellow and red warning lights... Hyperdrive was in a flux of yellow to green to red... all within seconds of each other... so the computer was having a panic attack on what was going on. Shields were holding steady right now at yellow but regenerating slowly... so no problem there. Weapons were offline for right now but since I was in hyperspace, that wasn't an immediate issue. Navigation... that was... complicated to say the least.

The navigational display was fuzzy and I couldn't even comprehend how that could happen... it was theoretically impossible... I was always a one for first...

"Niner, what's going on with the charts? What is our location and our we still on a course for Yavin?" Niner had direct access to the ship's computer so hopefully he would get better answers than the viewers I was looking at. His response was a series of high pitched squeals and noises that hurt my ears. Short answer, wasn't good, Niner didn't know, because the navigational computer didn't know. I never thought that was possible... that laser blast strikes that hit us, must have messed us up real badly and at the critical moment we transitioned into hyperspace. Wow.

Looking into the timestamps and travel distance, if the readings were correct, I've been in hyperspace for about 6 hours, not that long but in a state that I had no idea what direction we were going, flying blind was suicidal. I'm surprised we haven't hit any obstacles or space irregularities. I had to make a choice real quick before my luck ran out and the ship fell apart around me while going faster than light.

Making my decision I said to Niner, "Take us out of hyperspace Nine, shut down the hypersace drive if you have to, we must get back to normal space quick!"

As he responded and started powering down the drive, I braced myself for what I knew was going to be a rough stop ahead... oh how I was sadly right. In seconds the stars fell back to normal as the lines of hyperspace died away and my ship groaned in protest to the abrupt stop and sparks flew from a power coupling box near the engine readout screen. I went through check list for emergency procedures and started powering down systems I didn't need to save on power and prevent any other damage to my ship. Finally after getting a tally of what was good and bad, I noticed on my sensors that I near a planet and looking up, I was very close to it. A little too close for my liking actually. Seeing the planet being so close, I could make out a large land mass that was very white and most likely covered in ice.

"Please don't be Hoth, Please don't be Hoth" I kept repeating, I hated that planet because of how inhospitable it was. "Niner, is that planet Hoth we're in orbit around?"

He started bringing up navigational maps and comparing them to the stars were currently could see and after 19 seconds of screen flashing too quick for me to keep up, before he finally answered.

"What do you mean you don't know where we are? How's that possible, we have to be within a few sectors of our last positional fix. No known stars? Did you get fried as well during the transition?" I almost yelled manically.

I was starting to think of what this could mean, for a potential rescue or even if I could figure out a route to get back to Coruscant... but before I could decide any, power started dropping as my backup systems started to fail one by one... Having no choice, I figured this is it, do or die.

"Niner, we're going in..." I announced dejectedly.